Official Arsenal FC Thread

Out of interest, can we still sign players from Russia/any other leagues, or is it only sales that can happen?

They can only buy players from us, not the other way round

I see.

Fuck it we'll probably sell Arshavin and Chamakh at this rate then

I also forgot Squillaci existed for a bit there.

Fonseca wrote:Don't even care about top 4 to be honest, what's the point

Profits!

Chamakh will not leave. He is our back up striker now but this time it's to a player far inferior to the one last year.

Mal wrote:Chamakh will not leave. He is our back up striker now but this time it's to a player far inferior to the one last year.

Yea I was joking Not only that, he seems to get worse every time I see him. This time last year it wasn't completely awful that he was our backup striker, now it's like having 10 men.

Can't remember the last time he scored tbh

Blackburn away?

I live in Chicago.. the Major League baseball team here is called the Chicago Cubs.

They haven't won the league in 108 years.

So I've been dealing with this sort of mindset and depression and rage for a very very long time.

Drew wrote:I live in Chicago.. the Major League baseball team here is called the Chicago Cubs.

They haven't won the league in 108 years.

So I've been dealing with this sort of mindset and depression and rage for a very very long time.

And watching the Bears get dominated by Green Bay

Drew wrote:I live in Chicago.. the Major League baseball team here is called the Chicago Cubs.

They haven't won the league in 108 years.

So I've been dealing with this sort of mindset and depression and rage for a very very long time.

It's pretty different though. You've never known them to be successful I take it.

I still remember when we actually used to win things.. good times..

The parades around Finsbury Park and Highbury.

Well this is all a bit depressing...

Mal wrote:Blackburn away?

Maybe. To think, in his first season he got 19 goals/assists in 44 games for us.

Last year he got 2 goals/assists in 19 games, and they're about the only times he touched the ball

Everyone is knee-jerking a bit too much.

arsenalap11 wrote:

Drew wrote:I live in Chicago.. the Major League baseball team here is called the Chicago Cubs.

They haven't won the league in 108 years.

So I've been dealing with this sort of mindset and depression and rage for a very very long time.

It's pretty different though. You've never known them to be successful I take it.

I still remember when we actually used to win things.. good times..

They've had a lot of Arsenal type moments though.

7-game series.. up 3-0.. losing 4 straight.

A pop-up to end the game and win the series.. he misses it, run scores, we lose.

Seriously.. it's like watching the American Arsenal.

Cubs have a lot of history.. and have had a lot of league winning teams.. they just always choked and came up short.

But yeah.. I'm not into the team since I haven't been here long enough.. but it's the talk of the town every single day.. It's Arsenal

Shoutout to Batman, you won't have to worry about my pessimistic but realistic opinion anymore! Thanks bye

P.S. You're a cunt

One thing is we do have a good first 11. Let's hope they all stay fit.

Let one man deal with the creativity.

Drew wrote:

arsenalap11 wrote:

It's pretty different though. You've never known them to be successful I take it.

I still remember when we actually used to win things.. good times..

They've had a lot of Arsenal type moments though.

7-game series.. up 3-0.. losing 4 straight.

A pop-up to end the game and win the series.. he misses it, run scores, we lose.

Seriously.. it's like watching the American Arsenal.

Cubs have a lot of history.. and have had a lot of league winning teams.. they just always choked and came up short.

But yeah.. I'm not into the team since I haven't been here long enough.. but it's the talk of the town every single day.. It's Arsenal

Not gonna lie, I have no fucking idea what half of that meant.

Theo Filippo wrote:Everyone is knee-jerking a bit too much.

Agreed, I don't think we're that bad.

BladeGunner wrote:

Theo Filippo wrote:Everyone is knee-jerking a bit too much.

Agreed, I don't think we're that bad.

I know it's not great that we didn't sign anybody but not signing one of Essien, Sahin or Cabaye (Or whoever else we were linked with) doesn't mean we're going to come 5th all of a sudden.

BladeGunner wrote:

Theo Filippo wrote:Everyone is knee-jerking a bit too much.

Agreed, I don't think we're that bad.

Depends what your view is.

If we didn't sell Song, then I would be alright, but the fact that we sold him for no real reason by the looks of it, and didn't replace him at all, is what has topped it for me.

Just look at it like this:
Cazorla takes Song's place in the squad
Podolski and Giroud take their places in the squad over Van Flawed.

arsenalap11 wrote:

Drew wrote:

They've had a lot of Arsenal type moments though.

7-game series.. up 3-0.. losing 4 straight.

A pop-up to end the game and win the series.. he misses it, run scores, we lose.

Seriously.. it's like watching the American Arsenal.

Cubs have a lot of history.. and have had a lot of league winning teams.. they just always choked and came up short.

But yeah.. I'm not into the team since I haven't been here long enough.. but it's the talk of the town every single day.. It's Arsenal

Not gonna lie, I have no fucking idea what half of that meant.

I honestly knew you wouldn't. Like explaining Cricket to an American.

Theo Filippo wrote:

BladeGunner wrote:

Theo Filippo wrote:Everyone is knee-jerking a bit too much.

Agreed, I don't think we're that bad.

I know it's not great that we didn't sign anybody but not signing one of Essien, Sahin or Cabaye (Or whoever else we were linked with) doesn't mean we're going to come 5th all of a sudden.

I thought we'd finish out of the top 4 before today. I just think Wenger can't keep pulling off these miracles. One man played a huge part in our 3rd placed finish last season and the other teams around us just kept fucking up. We've won 2 games in our last 10.

Theo Filippo wrote:

BladeGunner wrote:

Agreed, I don't think we're that bad.

I know it's not great that we didn't sign anybody but not signing one of Essien, Sahin or Cabaye (Or whoever else we were linked with) doesn't mean we're going to come 5th all of a sudden.

We shouldn't be fighting for 4th, that's the point really. Granted we're behind the Manchesters, but we could have been fighting for at least 3rd and another trophy. Now we don't have enough depth to win a cup knowing we wont start our regulars, and Chelsea are too far ahead now it looks.

Also, it's worrying how close Spurs are now. We needed 2 players really.

Mal wrote:

Theo Filippo wrote:I know it's not great that we didn't sign anybody but not signing one of Essien, Sahin or Cabaye (Or whoever else we were linked with) doesn't mean we're going to come 5th all of a sudden.

I thought we'd finish out of the top 4 before today. I just think Wenger can't keep pulling off these miracles. One man played a huge part in our 3rd placed finish last season and the other teams around us just kept fucking up. We've won 2 games in our last 10.

Chill, we have Santa.

Theo Filippo wrote:Just look at it like this:
Cazorla takes Song's place in the squad
Podolski and Giroud take their places in the squad over Van Flawed.

Yea but Cazorla won't take Songs place in the starting XI.

I think we've replaced RvP okay with balance, but we've not replaced Song at all.

arsenalap11 wrote:

BladeGunner wrote:

Agreed, I don't think we're that bad.

Depends what your view is.

If we didn't sell Song, then I would be alright, but the fact that we sold him for no real reason by the looks of it, and didn't replace him at all, is what has topped it for me.

It's not optimum but it's not terrible either. Diaby and Wilshere will be back and Coquelin has another year of experience under his belt. He's 21 now so he's either showing enough promise to be close to the first team or he's just not good enough. Obviously Wenger thinks it's the former and we should trust his judgement. All in all I think we'll be alright. Third or fourth again relatively comfortably. Nothing more, nothing less.

arsenalap11 wrote:If Spurs signed/sign Moutinho, they'd have a squad pretty much as good as ours.

I still think we can get 4th, but it's not good enough.

At this point I think Tottenham will claim 4th easily over us. Chelsea 2nd, United 3rd, Tottenham 4th, and then Arsenal somewhere below that unless we have some sort of crazy good run of fortune.

So do we all love Arsenal again? I'm done raging.